Blog - /blog/2020/04/22/introducing-no-warming-no-war-how-militarism-fuels-climate-crisis-and-vice-versa/
- ...of Earth Day, the National Priorities Project is proud to release No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis - and Vice Versa.
Blog - /blog/2020/02/12/trumps-2021-budget-keeps-ignoring-climate-crisis/
- After rounding out the hottest decade on record, the federal government continues to operate in complete denial of the climate crisis. The Trump administration’s fourth budget proposal...
Blog - /blog/2020/01/15/yes-we-really-can-cut-pentagon-pay-medicare-all/
- ...of important things wrong.
Blog - /blog/2020/01/03/call-congress-no-war-iran/
- War is imminent. Present Trump authorized a military strike to kill Iranian military leader Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani in Baghdad, an act that has driven the Iranians to swear retaliation.&n...
Blog - /blog/2019/09/20/11-percent-military-budget-renewable-energy-every-home/
- ...cost of wind power for the average US household for one year is $581.28 as of 2018, and the cost for solar electiricty is $623.92. 127.59 million households × $581.28 (Cost per Household w...
Blog - /blog/2019/06/28/what-still-wasnt-said-democratic-debate-night-2/
- ...of back-to-back debates. The contenders and moderators said a bit more about our government’s highly militarized current priorities than last night, but still left much to be desired. Here...
Blog - /blog/2019/06/17/poor-peoples-moral-budget-everybody-has-right-live/
- ...war economy plaguing our country today. This Poor People’s Moral Budget asks, given the resources of our society, whether these demands are also possible. Our answer is a resounding ye...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/30/demilitarize-budget-fight-climate-change/
- ...of any real climate solution.
Blog - /blog/2018/11/28/commission-wants-pentagon-budget-increase-nearly-1-trillion-2024/
- ...of 3-5% in the Department of Defense budget—that could result in military spending of $972 trillion in 2024. But the Pentagon just failed its first-ever audit. If you don’t know where $700...
Blog - /blog/2018/06/21/house-gop-budget-calls-drastic-cuts-domestic-programs/
- This week the House majority released their budget blueprint for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1.
Blog - /blog/2018/06/12/diplomacy-better-war-north-korea/
- It would be overly cynical not to recognize the Singapore Summit's potential for good.
Blog - /blog/2018/05/27/memorializing-americas-wars/
- ...war as often as not – 37 of the last 78 years, not counting the Cold War.
Blog - /blog/2018/02/15/us-war-right-now-and-other-questions/
- ...of Wikimedia Commons. Editor's note: At a time when the United States is in the midst of its longest war ever, with no end in sight; when the president routinely and offhandedly spouts threats of war;...
Blog - /blog/2017/11/17/death-and-taxes-trumps-tax-bill-and-national-defense-authorization-act/
- The priorities in Congress this week are clear: a $700 billion authorization for military spending in FY 2018, and a $1.5 trillion tax plan that bestows untold wealth upon the already jaw-droppingly w...
Blog - /blog/2017/09/13/war-afghanistan-one-step-closer-ending-senate-vote-authorization-use-military-force/
- ...wars may have failed - but it still represents progress.
Blog - /blog/2017/05/23/trumps-budget-wars-war-poor-and-just-plain-war/
- If President Trump has shown us anything with this budget, it’s that he will seek to increase military spending, even if he doesn’t know why he’s doing it.
Blog - /blog/2017/03/16/what-if-we-took-54-billion-pentagon-instead/
- Trump wants to take $54 billion from human needs and give it to the military. What if we did the reverse?
Blog - /blog/2015/02/12/presidents-aumf-and-cost-war/
- ...of military force against ISIS.
Blog - /blog/2014/02/25/secretary-hagels-cuts-dont-translate-less-spending/
- ...of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a major speech at the Pentagon, and a bold headline ran in The New York Times announcing that the Pentagon would shrink the Army to pre-World War II levels. ...
Blog - /blog/2014/01/14/who-won-and-lost-2014-budget/
- Lawmakers have introduced a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that will finally complete the budgeting process for the federal government's fiscal year 2014.
